Sex
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Cuba Pays for Sex Change Operations
Cuba’s progressing fast when it comes to recognizing the rights of transgendered peoples. First the ban was lifted on sex-change operations in 2007, and now not only are the surgeries being performed in Cuba, they’re being paid for under the…
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Vollmann on Prostitution
“Well, I’m getting older, so I can’t get it up as much as I used to. […] I think prostitutes are amazing people with so much knowledge of human nature and so many fantastic stories. Some of them are scam…
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On the Superiority of James Salter
“The first time I read A Sport and a Pastime, just two years ago, I knew I’d experienced something unusual, alive, difficult in its directness; not something to look upon “fondly,” but a story that, like all great art, connected…
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #7: How To Be a Girl: Courtney Trouble’s Subversive Smut
Courtney Trouble’s no pedestrian pornographer. She’s a pale, femme, riot girl with squiggly tattoos and rocker bangs.
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Katie Roiphe’s Big Cock Block
I’m not sure what feminist nomenclature Katie Roiphe would assign herself, but I can’t fathom why she would choose to “assign primacy” to The Man.
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M4W-The Power Glove
I am going to guess that there is no file on this usage in Nintendo’s Product Safety Department. You gotta respect it: dude knows what he wants — and just asks for it:
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Bad Sex
Finally, a literary contest I might have a shot at winning. Britain’s Bad Sex in Fiction Prize winner was recently announced by the editor’s of Literary Review magazine. The shortlist consisted of several notable luminaries, including Phillip Roth, Paul Theroux…
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #6: The Orgasmic Frequency of Elle Rocket
When I met Elle in San Francisco, we were sleeping with the same tattooed Puerto Rican stripper in AA. Ten years later, she contacted me on Facebook and asked if I’d like to work with her. “Work” would mean erotic…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #12
INTERCOURSE ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing intercourse.
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The Rumpus Interview with Cyberpunk Richard Kadrey
The last time I saw you, in 2000, we were in a hotel room in Pittsburgh; one of us was naked and there was a beautiful, heavily tattooed girl handcuffed to the sink…
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Belle de Jour Is the New Pretty Woman
Pick any political debate or news article about prostitution, and there’s a high probability there’ll be a quote along the lines of “It’s a far cry from Pretty Woman.” As if that’s going to come as a surprise. As if…
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When Eternity’s Too Gay
Kaylie Jones, daughter of James Jones who penned From Here to Eternity, revealed in an interview with The Daily Beast that her father was forced to remove gay sex scenes from his original manuscript prior to publication. Jones had originally…